Four Months

Little Man is four months old today. We had his four month well visit this morning. He is 25” long (56%), 14 lbs, 14 oz (52%), and the circumference of his head is 16 1/4” (26%). His head is still little even though it looks gigantic on his body…I remember Reese’s head looking that way too. He also received one vaccinations today. How pitiful! He was not happy about it!

LOL! I just went back to look at Reese’s stats from her four month visit. She was much bigger than Sam is now. Oh my!!

We are going to start rice cereal sometime this week. I know he is going to love it. He is soooo interested in foods that we are eating. He will just stare at and reach for what ever we are putting in our mouths.

Here are some things he is doing:
*rolling over
*laughing
*loves watching big sister
*flirts…he gives the biggest, gummy smiles
*chews on his hands all the time because he is teething…his gums are swollen!
*spits up every time we get in the car (hence the bib above)
*makes the sweetest sounds
*is only sleeping about 6 hours at night before waking up to eat…hoping this changes when he starts solids
*he is very chill but when he is not happy he lets you know!
*moved in to size three diapers a couple of weeks ago
*still wears 3-6 months clothes
*is so sweet and such a good baby!!

Teeth

This poor little guy is teething!  He will just scream and scream.  I gave him Motrin for the first time today and that seemed to ease the pain.  Let’s hope we can make it through this with the least amount of pain possible. 

Loves

She is so sweet.
 

How is he getting so big so fast?


Reese and I were going to make cookies today but Sam wanted to be held too…here was the solution.  He was so excited!!


One of our new favorite (and healthy) snacks.  Yum!!

ROFL

Well, technically ROFandL.

*Last night I got Sam to give us a good Laugh for the first time.

*This morning he Rolled over On the Floor for the first time. Belly to back.

*Reese woke up with a dry pull up this morning...woohoo!

We are having a big day today!!

Dreaming

Here we are dreaming…

of being at the beach…
 

instead of in the snow…

Weese

I love how she says her name!!

Updates

Reese took this picture of Sam and me.  She is our little budding photographer.


Sam has been reaching for and grabbing things lately.


One of his favorite things to grab is Reese’s hair.  She ALWAYS gets in his face and he will reach out and grab all of that hair.  She doesn’t know whether to cry or laugh when it happens.  He just gets the biggest smile on his face.


Reese wanted to wear a head band to school today so I found this one for her to wear.  She looked so cute.  I don’t know if it will still be in her hair when she gets home…we will see.

Home Videos

I found some cute videos on my hard drive that I wanted to share on here.

This is from when we came home from the hospital with Sam. Reese was so excited to see us...so sweet.

This is a new song Reese has learned at school recently. I am not sure exactly what it is because this is the only part I ever hear...



Sam was giving Reese "kisses" and she thought it was so funny...

A Little Late

I didn’t get to post these Valentine’s pictures because my computer was broken…but now I have a my new one…so here you go.

We had a Valentine Day party at a friend’s house.  The kids had a lot of fun (and so did the Mommies). 

Since this picture was taken two of these sweet little ones have had a baby brother born!  Sam has some new friends to play with and grow with.  I can’t wait to see the little ones.
 

Happy belated Valentine’s day!!

Reese’s View

We gave Reese a camera to use while at Disney.  Here is her view of things.







A lot of feet and bottoms…So funny!

I found these pictures on her camera that
I took too.  Lance took Reese to drive a car on the raceway. 

Here they are waiting in line.  I was in the “Grandstand” with Sam trying to keep him warm.


This is one of my favorite pictures.  It really shows how much fun she was having.

Five Years

Yesterday Lance and I celebrated our fifth anniversary!  We were able to get away for a little while last night and go to dinner.  We weren’t gone very long but it was the perfect time away.  I even had a glass of wine…yum!

Then…2005


Now


My…what a difference five years makes!!  I love you, honey!

The Happiest Place on Earth

This past week we had the opportunity to go to Disney World with some friends. It was a quick trip but we had a great time. The family we went with has two of Reese's favorite girls. Reese would have been totally happy if we had just stayed in the hotel the whole time with the girls. But she got a bonus of being able to go to Disney for the first time with them.

I am not quite sure she understood exactly where she was but she enjoyed it. There were a ton of people there. I really didn't think it would be as crowded as it was but it must have been school break for a bunch of school systems.


We were able to see a couple of shows. We luckily walked up right when this show was starting. This was the first show Reese saw and she loved seeing the characters...the princesses were in it too.


Reese enjoyed the little things. She danced to the music playing out in the open.


She was in her own world.




Next we went to ride Dumbo. Lance and I had to take turns riding the rides with Reese.


It was so cold. We were not really prepared for how cold it was. In my haste of getting everything together, I forgot a coat for myself. It was obvious that a lot of people didn't realize how cold it was going to be because there were people in shorts. It wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't so windy.


We finally had to just decide to leave because everyone was so cold. We have decided that it is a must to spend at least two days at the Magic Kingdom. We will remember that for our next trip. It is also NOT a good idea to travel there with a three month old. They just require too much work. However, I was very impressed with the baby care center in the park!!


On the next day we went to downtown Disney to eat lunch. After lunch we went in to a candy shop and Reese spied this Nemo cookie.


She was only interested in the icing.


I am pretty sure she enjoyed this carosel as much as anything in the Magic Kingdom.


We had a wonderful time and were so happy to be there and spend time with our friends!! I can't wait to take the kids back when they are older and will be much more excited about everything.